I often combine many things here and do use the word " chat " liberally as I feel it is like being face-to-face with you and that I am chatting in an unedited, unscripted fashion thus more relaxed and intimate and revealing. I want to tell and share through words and pictures the stories behind things almost casually. I hope it is heart-felt. I add when and where I am to fix them in my time.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Mike Kim and LokeshJaiswal came to Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits today ( Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 ) dressed in Scottish men's kilts and were promoting GLENFIDDICH and BALVENIE Scottish single malts on " Tartan Day " and it was great to see them and all their spirit and celebration radiated in both their expressions and their gestures/motions. It worked : it was infectious!

I had to take pictures of this and I asked the other sales reps to get into the pictures with us.

Wine owner Susan McCarthy of KENNEDY POINT ( 44 Donald Bruce Road , Waiheke Island, Aukland , New Zealand (09) 372-5600 info@kennedypointvineyard.com ) was there to get into the spirit. She loves GLENFIDDICH and was delighted to participate. So were resp Marcie Weinstein and Lisa Giufre.

We have the GLENFIDDICH 12 ( $42.99 ) as well as the 15 year-old and the 18-year ( www.glenfiddich.com William Grant & Sons Ltd )-old here at Cleveland Park now.

We also sell the three BALVENIE single malts starting with the 10 year-old Founder's Reserve ( www.thebalvenie.com ) ON SALE now for $42.99. We love having them : they are staples here at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008 sales@clevelandparkwine.com www.clevelandparkwine.com 202-363-4265 ) in our nation's capitol. Call RavinderSharma for more information. Come by and say hello and don't forget your kilt!

In the News

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About Me

Spent the first half of my life overseas with my family and the second half with my wife building our family together here in the United States. ALSO : I consider myself a wine-enabler and someone that , as an artist , always likes to " add to the equation " instead of duplicating it. I love to share my passion for both art and wine and consider the two to be related and indispensable for me in living my life fully and creatively where I am not afraid to stand alone if need be.
At this stage in my life now I am launching into a new directions and have two new pursuits to help me do this : 1) I am now consulting people on the business, love and pursuit of wine both on a private and a public/ business level and so have established my new blog site for that called : chatwinebusinesssavy.blogspot.com to reach out to you , as well as 2) a " new " wine business venture importing the wines of Brazil to the United States called BRALVIN Brazilian Wine & Alcohol at : anthony@bralvin.com as well as : www.bralvin.com. Cheers,AAQ